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Are buying in order to figure out what each cost and also i would note that on the songwriter side, Songwriters Guild featured Music Coalition that have brought up issues of transparency because arbitration might lead to issues where the artists themselves dont necessarily know what the rate is or how it was decided. I think my time is up mr. Chairman. Thank you. Senator franken. Thank you mr. Chairman for this hearing. Mr. Harris and you talked about this 150,000dollar fine that could be impose...

Jon thats our show. Here it is the moment of zen. It is very important to the state senate in minnesota, so they are keeping some rules that things dont get craed crazy. . Oarts voted to keep the rule saying they cant make eye contact during a floor debate. This is not voof a floor debate. Thats from curb arry tonightly, an africanamerican woman is set to become one of the most powerful women in the u. S. And for once were not talking about cookie from empire. laughter millionaire pastor Creflo ...

Pure navy bill, it will devastate some part of the navy either our shipbuilding or readiness or something, because the high cost of these and because we dont recapitalize them very often. If you look back in history there is precedent for either making this a National Program because it is the most survivable leg of our deterrence or building another ship to accommodate it. The freedom in the early 60s to late 60s and the maritime maybe in 72 it was increased pretty dramatically to build these s...

Of the sanctions it was a cig nif event for the United States as well. I would be happy to entertain questions on that when we get into it. So, theres been an awful lot of listening thats gone on. And what i would say is its broken down into a couple of themes. The first theme being this theme of balance finding the sweet spot. As ive said ive spoken to an awful lot of groups similar to this diverse groups, brookings tends to have a very balanced view of things more centrist so perhaps this prog...

In the United States, the United States government does not own industries. Now, some of the industries that are represented within the aec from other countries are at least partially or wholly owned by if state. Theres a state interest in having those countries in there to be able to develop things within the arctic. We took a different approach. First of all, because of our culture, once again, our government does not own industries. Secondly, if we start getting too close with industry, you s...

Those are not easy things. The last thing, theres four parts to the department of defense. There are the four services, the three departments. Army, navy, air force. But theres also the department of defense. Can i take a shot at that, sir . Whoever. Im going to defend my two Service Chiefs here. Their staffs have not grown. Were not growing. The staffs are staying steady. Were doing a 20 reduction in headquarters staff. But, again its what we call the fourth estate. The department of defense ag...

One of the Top Priorities we have is presence. You wont see a Budget Reduction in our forward presence. Japan, singapore and guam will continue to increase. We are increasing the forces in the european command as we look at how were going to deploy in the future. Strictly for the reason you stated with the instability in the africom and the ucom region. Its not dramatic, but it is there. So the asia pacific wont take a hit from the sequestration and our european presence will not take a hit from...

Difference in a positive way in the world. He does not believe that we can be a force for good in the world. The president gave a speemp in cairo. Do you remember that speech in went to cairo and apologized for the United States to send a message of uncertainty right from the very beginning we were now going to be a different kind of country. He went to west point and spoke to those wonderful graduates ready to take degrees and commissions and go stand up for us as necessary across the world and...

Arctic is in my formal title. We here at csis in our program have a tradition. We host a public conversation just a few days before an Arctic Council add mip steer yal, so we had in 20 is 11 the road to nuke, and in 2013 the road to croon. Today, we have the road to the senator who says iglooit but were off next week. I could think of no more perfect speaker to over reflections just eight days before the United States assumes the Arctic Council chairmanship than a person who has been in the area...

And i would suggest that a year from now, the notion that we would reverse this policy that is allowed more americans to travel to cuba and to help cuban people have access to more technology more capital more values and more contact with americans will seem as absurd as reversing the changes that were made with cuban American Travel a couple of years ago. So again, i applaud you for what youre doing and look forward to working with the administration as this policy unfolds. Thank you, senator m...